The small child twirled, her arms spread wide like the wings of an airplane, narrowly missing a weary traveler's suitcase. She was due to be reunited with her mother, who was waiting in the arrivals hall. A delay was announced, causing many to groan, but it was just a chance to play and revel in the anticipation of the hug. Her giggle was a high-pitched sound, full of freedom and the joy of life. She skipped over to her dad, asking if she could have a snack.

Emotion: exuberant

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.42 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion exuberant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 exuberant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the exuberant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the exuberant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
!0.676
de0.605
la0.596
!"0.551
0.548
Suppressed:
S-0.892
😞-0.474
ness-0.407
L-0.389
😔-0.376